Anthony, Susan B.[Frontispiece]
Anthony, Mary S.[848]
Avery, Rachel Foster[270]
Avery, Susan Look[678]
Blackwell, Alice Stone[270]
Blankenburg, Lucretia L.[750]
Catt, Carrie Chapman[388]
Chapman, Mariana W.[848]
Clay, Laura[270]
Coggeshall, Mary J.[948]
Eaton, Dr. Cora Smith[518]
Gordon, Kate M.[678]
Greenleaf, Jean Brooks[848]
Gregg, Laura A.[518]
Hall, Florence Howe[750]
Harper, Ida Husted[1042]
Hatch, Lavina A.[750]
Hayward, Mary Smith[948]
Howard, Emma Shafter[518]
Howland, Emily[848]
Jenkins, Helen Philleo[678]
Johns, Laura M.[948]
McCulloch, Catharine Waugh[270]
Meredith, Ellis[518]
Mills, Harriet May[750]
Nelson, Julia B.[948]
Osborne, Elizabeth Wright[848]
Shaw, Rev. Anna Howard[128]
Southworth, Louisa[678]
Spencer, Rev. Anna Garlin[750]
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady[188]
Swift, Mary Wood[518]
Thomas, Mary Bentley[678]
Upton, Harriet Taylor[270]
Wells, Emmeline B.[948]

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

List of Illustrations xxxiv

[INTRODUCTION.]

Review of the Situationxiii-xxxiii
Pioneers break the ground — All their demands now practically conceded except the Franchise — Why is this still refused? — All other rights depend on Statute Law, suffrage on change of Constitution — No other nation thus fettered — Further almost insurmountable obstacles — Experience in many States — Either dominant party would enfranchise women if it were sure of their votes — Liquor interests and political "machines" allied in opposition — They control the situation — Figures of votes on Amendments — Majority of people born opponents of all innovations — Character of electorate on which women must depend — Indifference of women themselves — Reaction against a democratic government — Facts showing steady progress of Woman Suffrage — All signs favorable — Women in education and business — Old objections dying out — Personal character of advocates — Persecution not obsolete but the enfranchisement of women inevitable.

[CHAPTER I.]

Woman's Constitutional Right to Vote1-13
Early State constitutions provided against Woman Suffrage — First demand for it — Women after the Civil War — "Male" first used in National Constitution — Fourteenth Amendment — Endeavor to make it include women — They attempt to vote — Susan B. Anthony's trial — Case of Virginia L. Minor — Supreme Court decisions — Suffrage as a right — Arguments for the Federal Franchise — National Association decides to try only for new Amendment — Hearings before Congressional Committees — Reports of these committees — Debate in Congress.

[CHAPTER II.]